Michael Geers is a behavioral scientist and a tenure-track assistant professor of Marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin (UCD). His research explores human behavior in digital contexts. In his first stream of research, Michael investigates how people process (mis)information and make decisions online. In a second stream, he aims to boost people’s competences to navigate digital environments and guard themselves against manipulation. Prior to his current position, he worked as a postdoctoral and predoctoral fellow at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He also earned a PhD in Psychology (Humboldt University of Berlin), a Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences (University of Pennsylvania), an MSc in Marketing (Trinity College Dublin), and a BA in Business Administration (Provadis School of International Management and Technology). His research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Current Opinion in Psychology, Judgment and Decision Making, and Nature Human Behaviour.